Ask HN: Is there a database of Hacker news posts that I can download?

7 points by rgovind 13y ago ↗ HN

I want to download hacker news posts and support instant search on top of it. I saw that there was one such database before...but downloading is disabled now.

Do hacker news TOS even allow downloading and making a copy of the database?

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xauronx 13y ago ↗

Why dont you use http://www.hnsearch.com/

I guess if you really want to you can use their API to download posts.

[dead] rgovind 13y ago ↗

That is my next step. I just wanted to make sure I am not duplicating others work.

unholygoat 13y ago ↗

they're out there.. just a matter of convincing someone to give u a copy...opendata/easily downloadable wise i high doubt it other than for specific terms/posts/people